verb (used with object), e·lut·ed, e·lut·ing. Physical Chemistry.
- to remove by dissolving, as absorbed material from an adsorbent.
verb
- (tr) to wash out (a substance) by the action of a solvent, as in chromatography
“washing, purification,” 1610s, from Latin elutionem (nominative elutio) “a washing out,” noun of action from past participle stem of eluere “to wash out, wash off, clean,” from ex- “out” (see ex-) + luere “to wash” (see lave).
n.
- The chromatographic process of using a solvent to extract an adsorbed substance from a solid adsorbing medium.
- The removal of antibody from the antigen to which it is attached.
- The process of extracting a substance that is adsorbed to another by washing it with a solvent.♦ The substance used as a solvent in elution is called an eluent. ♦ The solution of the solvent and the substance that was adsorbed to another is called the eluate.